Nisreen Ameen, University of Reading

Federico Iannacci, University of Sussex

Daniel Gozman, University of Sydney

James S. Denford, Royal Military College of Canada

This special issue examines how artificial intelligence embedded in public services shapes and is shaped by policy, and how these interactions affect public value. It addresses the bidirectional relationship between AI and policy: AI influences how policy problems are framed and implemented, while policy decisions configure how AI systems are developed and deployed.

The special issue invites Information Systems research that theorises AI as central to policy formation and enactment. It seeks to understand how organisations translate AI-policy ambitions into practice, how governance mechanisms enable accountability, and how these processes create, distribute or undermine public value—understood as plural, contested outcomes encompassing efficiency, equity, participation and welfare.

All submissions must include dedicated policy implications derived from evidence and analysis. Research should address how AI-mediated practices affect citizens and marginalised groups, and what trade-offs arise between competing values.

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Potential topics

• Creation and Distribution of Public Value
• AI Use and the Production of Policy
• AI Governance Beyond Regulatory Compliance
• Policy Translation and Organisational Capability
• Participation, Inequality and Contestation
• IS Knowledge and Policy Formation

Timeline

• June 15, 2027: Submission deadline

Javier Cifuentes-Faura, University of Murcia

Governments worldwide are increasingly using economic tools such as trade policy, industrial policy, and strategic investments to advance geopolitical objectives, a phenomenon known as geoeconomic statecraft. However, research has largely focused on geopolitical and economic outcomes, leaving a significant gap in understanding how public organizations manage, finance, and evaluate these interventions.

This special issue addresses this gap by examining public management and public value implications of geoeconomic governance. As governments take on roles as investors, market participants, and coordinators of critical sectors, public organizations face challenges in balancing transparency with security, efficiency with resilience, and fiscal discipline with long-term strategic goals. The issue seeks contributions exploring how public value should be defined when economic, security, and societal objectives compete.

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Potential topics

• Public management of geoeconomic strategies and strategic state interventions
• Public value creation and distribution in geoeconomic governance
• Public financial management of strategic economic interventions
• Accountability and performance management in geoeconomic and mission-oriented public policies
• Governance and management of strategic public investments
• Administrative capacity for managing geoeconomic risks and strategic industries
• Fiscal governance and accountability of industrial subsidies and strategic investments
• Transparency, oversight, and accountability in strategic public procurement
• Public sector governance of strategic infrastructure and critical sectors
• Measuring and evaluating public value in strategic economic interventions
• Public management of economic sanctions and export controls
• Governance of critical supply chains and strategic dependencies
• Accountability in sovereign wealth funds and state-owned enterprises
• Governance of national security-related public expenditure
• Investment screening and public sector accountability
• Multi-level governance of strategic economic policies
• Public–private partnerships in strategically important sectors
• Institutional and organizational responses to geopolitical and economic uncertainty
• Comparative public management approaches to geoeconomic governance

Timeline

• December 30, 2027: Manuscript deadline for research articles and new development pieces
• March 1, 2028: Manuscript deadline for debate pieces